Quote

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

George Bernard Shaw

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
Artist
Author
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
Linguist
Music Critic
Photographer
Playwright
Politician
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Bernard Shaw
G.B. Shaw
Ignorant
Victoria
Came
Maids
Would
Throne
Thrones
Mentally
Classed
Nowadays
Parlor
Queen
Maid
Queens
Defective

More quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Image
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, Is there a play from Shaw this morning? and when she says, No, he will say, Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish. And that's your chance, my boy.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
In the arts of life main invents nothing but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
George Bernard Shaw
Image
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
George Bernard Shaw